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The GarageGeeks, SpaceIL and NASA invites you to International Space Apps Challenge.

The International Space Apps Challenge is a 2 day technology development event during which citizens from around the world will work together to solve current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social need. The International Space Apps Challenge will take place on all seven continents – in space - and at GarageGeeks HQ - on 20-21 April 2012.

The International Space Apps Challenge is a “codeathon-style” event. A codeathon is a unique event that brings together citizens interested in collaborating on the development solutions that address critical challenges. A codeathon celebrates software development in its most positive context—using minimal resources and maximum brainpower to create outside- the-box solutions in response to interesting problems. Codeathons are technology development marathons, drawing on the talents and initiative of the best and the brightest software developers, engineers, designers and technologists from around the world, who volunteer their time to respond to real- world problems with solutions than can have immediate impact.

At the events, individuals collaborate with others by forming teams focused on solving a particular challenge. The teams compete with other teams around the world to utilize publicly available space and data to design innovative “solutions” to a pre-determined series of global “challenges.”

You are invited to participate in a Natural Interaction ® Hackathon.
At the workshop, PrimeSense will lend the sensors for group members to proceed developing the projects for the following week.
The hackathon starts at 17,18 November at GarageGeeks, and a week later you need to submit your project.

if you are into it, read more below.

=======================About Natural Interaction ® Hackathon
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Game developers, traditional developers, graphic designers, creative’s are invited to create and submit cool “Natural Interaction ® application”.
PrimeSense will lend sensors for each group during up to 1 week.
Jury will be composed by 3 experts who will designate a winning project.

Designing or porting games to become motion controlled is not reserved to an elite few.
Using the OpenNI Framework with OpenNI compatible Middleware and depth sensors, developers can easily integrate full-body control and interactive augmented reality into their games.
Designers are just starting to explore possible game mechanics and gameplays enabled by gesture-based technologies.
This Hackathon will demonstrate how easy this process is, using tools and environments that are familiar to many game developers such as Unity3D.
It’s as simple as developing a keyboard-based application!

=======================Contest Condition:
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* All OpenNI compliant projects will be eligible to the competition (As per the OpenNI Guidelines PDF doc)
* Participants will have 1 week to submit their project.
* Upload your project to OpenNI Arena before deadline (With Source Code to share with the community)
* Project shouldn’t require any additional purchase (software/hardware)

=======================References
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Everything is available and downloadable for free from http://www.openni.org
* NI Apps guidelines
* Documentations
* OpenNI: SDK Binaries, Samples & Source code
* NiTE: Middleware Binaries and Samples
* Unity3D Wrapper (Latest version of the wrapper was released in the latest “Unstable Version” package)
* Many developers published their own NI Apps on the Arena: http://arena.openni.org – often with source code

DC9723 is organizing a Hackathon event on September 22 5pm - September 23 5pm.

We would like to invite you all to attend and participate in what should be a very dynamic 24 hours
Hackathon is an event where hackers meet and do collaborative computer programming, hardware hacking and etc.

Bring laptops, soldering kits, FPGA’s and other working tools!

It’s a good opportunity for you to socialize, find new projects, break new stuff, and contribute to the community!

Got an idea for a new hack? Looking for help writing a new fuzzer? Need help with your reverse shell over ICMP?
Create account at http://www.dc9723.org/Hackathon and add your project, or alternatively join someone else’s project.

The DC9723 Hackathon event is open to the public, yet it is customary to participate in at least one project (or to create your own, either way it’s hands-on).

Bring your own laptop and arduino if you have - we’ll bring a few.
Place for 40 or so hardware savvy (or wannabiz)
If you already started working on some project, excellent, bring it over and we’ll do some further improvements together.

During the 2,3 April weekend were holding a Facebook Application Developer Workshop

We will split into teams and each team will work on a project.
Don’t know how? Don’t worry! All you need is some basic knowledge in , programming (PHP, Python,Javascript) and we’ll help you with the rest!

Graphic designers from all kinds are welcome to contribute their skills.